Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thehousetech.com

The House Tech - Best Smart Home and Automation Gadgets Reviews & Guides

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehousetech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehousetech.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehousetech.com

143 ms

thehousetech.com

3338 ms

913b44baf75256e828872593e3d8880d.css

170 ms

js

322 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Thehousetech.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehousetech.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

882.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Thehousetech.com main page is 1.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 580.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 119.7 kB

  • Original 144.7 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 25.0 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 119.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 580.9 kB
  • After minification 574.8 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. The House Tech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 127.6 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 122.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 160.4 kB
  • After minification 160.4 kB
  • After compression 160.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Thehousetech.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The House Tech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehousetech.com accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

thehousetech.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thehousetech.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thehousetech.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Thehousetech.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The House Tech. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: